Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] HTML Validator bug pinpointed

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Hi Bogdan,

Sure, I remember and I still would like to see it.
I tested on the sites you gave and with this test page.

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<FONT SIZE="+2">
<FONT SIZE='-1'>
Test
</FONT>
</FONT>
</body>
</html>

But it does not crash. Do you have such a page that crash all the time ?
Do you know a way to make it crash by sure ? how exactly ?

Thanks by advance,

Marc

Bogdan wrote:
>  Hello again.
>
>  If you don't remember me, I was the annoying user, who insisted that
> there was a bug in the HTML Validator, which lead to Firefox crash.
> You weren't able to reproduce the problem, but now I've found out what
> exactly the problem is. The problem is a valid FONT tag with its SIZE
> attribute set to an expression, which begins with a '+' or '-' sign in
> any quotation mark. That is, these work fine:
>
> <FONT SIZE=5>
> <FONT SIZE="5">
> <FONT SIZE=+2> (although this is invalid HTML)
>
> but these lead to a crash:
>
> <FONT SIZE="+2">
> <FONT SIZE='-1'>
>
>  Last time I reported that the problematic websites were google.pl and
> www.pg.gda.pl. The issue is still up (the browser crashes), but when
> the pages are saved to disk (still crash Firefox) and the above FONT
> tags are removed, everything works fine.
>  Please check this out.
>
>   